RE: Intelligent Design
January 14, 2016 at 3:15 pm
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2016 at 3:19 pm by Simon Moon.)
(January 14, 2016 at 3:07 pm)AAA Wrote:(January 14, 2016 at 2:27 pm)Beccs Wrote: Which one?
Hundreds, if not thousands of people have claimed to be the son or daughter or direct incarnation of various gods. Should we believe them all on the merits of their claims?
But at some point the high number of people claiming something does become significant.
Yeah, just like the when the vast majority of humanity used to believe the earth was flat, right?
Quote:If everyone on earth except you claimed to have seen bigfoot, would you believe it or still need to see it for yourself?
At that point, they'd be able to provide other demonstrable evidence to support their claim, that would not require that I see a bigfoot.
I believe atoms exist, without ever seeing one, because of the other evidence available.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
